Joel Jones has been announced as VP, Americas Ad Marketplaces at Yahoo! which includes responsibilities as the new head of Yahoo!’s Right Media Exchange in North America. Jones spoke to AdExchanger.com during last week’s ad:tech event about RMX and its latest developments. AdExchanger.com: Can you share a little background on you and your new role? […]
Jonathan Mendez is CEO of RAMP Digital, a digital, performance media agency. AdExchanger.com: Why did you found your performance marketing agency, RAMP Digital? JM: I was becoming much more interested in emergent technologies for delivering relevance, namely APIs and semantic driven tools. At Offermatica (now Omniture Test&Target) our platform was 100% JavaScript and while that […]
Kurt Unkel is Senior Vice President of Publicis’ VivaKi Nerve Center. KU: I think volume of impressions and the real-time api of Google’s new exchange are the biggest benefits, as these address the scalability and operational challenges of the original Ad Exchange. These new benefits combined with the quality of participants and simplified billing, key […]
Iggy Fanlo is CEO of AdBrite, an online advertising exchange. How’s business at AdBrite? Is the exchange model working? IF: The ad exchange model is very strong. We’re seeing incredible results from our targeting algorithms (black boxes). The addition of third party (open architecture) data and targeting algorithms is being implemented and the early results […]
Many regional interactive marketing associations are busy with panels and symposia about digital marketing strategy and tactics – even exchanges! The Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association (AIMA – Facebook link) provided a panel to its members on ad networks and exchanges this past week that included Google and Yahoo!. Upcoming, on April 8, the IAB comes […]
AOL Platform-A’s BidPlace SB has launched, or relaunched, depending on what you know and when you started knowing it. In our previous post on BidPlace SB, it appeared maintenance was underway or a change in strategy. Today, a commenter informs us that all is well and BidPlace SB (no one knows what SB means) is […]
Ashu Garg’s recent post entitled “Data Liquidity” brings light to the growing data exchange model including data traders, BlueKai, and yield optimizers, AdMeld, who have absorbed millions in cash from venture firms this year. Mike On Ads is looking for rumors on what’s going on with Google’s display advertising strategy. OK, this post was from […]
A favorite bugaboo with which publishers like to challenge ad exchanges and networks is latency – the amount of time it takes to serve an ad. RightMedia appears to be suffering a bad case of it according to yesterday’s VentureBeat. VB adds that there is a ton of research out there saying the loss in […]
In ClickZ today, writer Tessa Wegert elevates the ad exchange cause with her article entitled, “Understanding Ad Exchanges.” Ironically, the article is sponsored by ad network, Tribal Fusion. Not sure how TF felt about it – oh well. Wegert discusses one of the main differences between ad networks and exchanges: ad networks act as middlemen, […]
Joe Mullin, a reporter for IP Law & Business, has provided insight on his blog regarding a patent violation lawsuit that is making its way through the courts and affects many of the larger advertising technology companies including Yahoo (ad exchange Right Media’s owner), Google (DoubleClick’s Ad Exchange), ContextWeb (ADSDAQ), and Specific Media. The gyst […]
The sky is falling in the world of online display advertising! Actually, Paid Content makes it sound like JP Morgan analyst Imran Khan awoke from a nap: “Sensing that marketers are becoming more conservative with their ad spend, Khan expects that long-tail advertisers will shift toward performance-based advertising forms.” Yawn. Looks like it’s only going […]
Ad exchanges received a plug today in the New York Times when Stephanie Clifford wrote an article entitled “Leftover Ad Space? Exchanges Handle The Remnant” about companies looking to take advantage of the efficiencies of exchanges by building tools that enable online advertising traders much the same way traders stock exchanges depend on tools and […]
The creative, vertical ad network, Glam Media, has once again reinvented itself with yesterday’s announcement regarding the first vertical ad exchange. From the press release: “GlamX Ad Exchange enables advertisers to target by audience, content and placement effectively connecting publishers, advertisers, agencies and networks in one innovative platform.” OK, well, still sounds like an an […]
